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Amazing article on mechanical watches. (ciechanow.ski)
submitted 4 months ago by sznowicki@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66266973

Mechanical Watch | a guide to build a mechanical watch

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[–] Mnem667@retrofed.com 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I've seen this before, and it's a paragon of how to explain and demonstrate mechanical concepts.
This person needs to be hired by someone full time to produce this kind of page for all the things.
Thanks for reminding me it exists.

***edit to add:
Omg I found archives of more! https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

yeah, that website is a treasure trove of amazing interactive mechanical demos.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago

Sadly, 99% of today's population doesn't have even 1% of the attention span required to view, much less interact with and understand, this kind of presentation.

[–] dil@piefed.zip 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Respect to them for modeling and animating that, making it render real time in web for the demonstration, that's sick

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

And the spring sliders are springy!

[–] Toto@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Truly incredible article

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 8 points 4 months ago

I have managed to lose track of time while reading about how we track time.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Omg the winding rotor moves as you spin the animation around!

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Yea! That was amazing!

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

I love seeing this masterpiece of an article shared around. Really incredible stuff!

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did I miss the self winding mechanism? To me the most impressive mechanical watches are the self winders.

[–] CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

"Automatic winding", about 90% of the way through